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Kansas City Ballet Launches 50th Anniversary Season with KANSAS CITY, Mo. (August 2, 2007) – Pack your picnic basket and lawn blanket and join us for a festival of fun, featuring chances to win great prizes and free outdoor performances. Kansas City Ballet is pleased to announce the schedule of five FREE performances of Ballet in the Park, sponsored in part by Bank of America, Midwest Airlines, The Kansas City Star and KUDL, slated for September 4-8, 2007, throughout greater Kansas City. “Our Ballet in the Park has come to signify the exciting launch of a new year of our artistic season,” says William Whitener, artistic director of the Kansas City Ballet. “Everyone brings blankets and picnics to enjoy a sampling of our repertoire.” The artists of Kansas City Ballet will give audiences a glimpse into past and present repertory programs with performances designed for audiences of all ages. Ballet in the Park has many exciting features for all to enjoy. Several booths will be open providing opportunities to learn more about the Kansas City Ballet. Attendees may register to win door prizes. Dancers will be available following the performance to chat with the audience and sign autographs on posters provided free of charge from Kansas City Ballet. In celebration of the 50th anniversary, attendees may pre-order Kansas City Ballet: The First 50 Years commemorative books for $29.95. The celebratory season kicks off with Ballet in the Park, our annual series of free performances across the city, including Loose Park, Ironwoods Park in Leawood, Oak Grove Park in Gladstone, Powell Gardens and a new location, the Crossroads Arts District in partnership with Mid-America Arts Alliance. Families are encouraged to arrive early and are welcome to bring a picnic and blanket for the performances. (No cameras or camcorders please.) Each performance is scheduled to last approximately one hour and all are open to the public. For further information, please call the Kansas City Ballet box office at 816. 931.2232 x375 or visit our website at www.kcballet.org. The Crossroads District has been added to the list of venues for this free performance series. Everyone is invited to come join the company for this one-of-a-kind public art performance, as they become part of the First Fridays monthly event! Prior to the Ballet in the Park performance, watch the professional company dance selected scenes from The Nutcracker with painted feet on a huge canvas tarp. Then join in on the fun with your own painted feet on a tarp for a truly public art piece. Paint, water buckets and towels provided! September 4, 6:00 p.m. September 6, 6:00 p.m. NEW LOCATION! September 8, noon September 8, 6:00 p.m. Founded in 1957, Kansas City Ballet is a 25-member professional ballet company under the direction of Artistic Director William Whitener and Executive Director Jeffrey J. Bentley. The company’s mission is to establish Kansas City Ballet as an indispensable asset of the Kansas City community through performance, training and education. The Kansas City Ballet is home to Kansas City Ballet School for more than 600 children and adults, offering professional training for the career-minded student as well as for those seeking a healthy lifestyle. Through our professional company, school and community outreach programs such as ROAD, Project X, and Dance INFORMances, we seek to nurture and develop our artists, audiences and students in the creativity, diversity and joy of dance.
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